By Global Issues NEW DELHI, India, May 11 (IPS) – When it comes to gender equality and development, the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and the Arab States region continues to be in a paradoxical situation. While within the region, several laws, policies and programming focused on gender equality are growing, women’s representation in government […]
By Global Issues NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – “Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to the Deutsche Gramaphon recording of No Exit Mr. Vladimir Putin’s illegal War of Aggression in Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022, brought […]
By Global Issues Sydney and KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 (IPS) – The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. After the US Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, more central banks have been doing likewise. Considering inflation’s contemporary causes, such ‘follow the leader’ central bank mimicry cannot […]